Some thoughts:1. In WMA, Standard is misspelled.2. It'd be nice if there were approximate bitrates next all the settings. For those of us who don't know what each quality level means in bitrate.3. If I transcode 11 tracks, it'll say 1 of 22 done. Does TAC transcode to another format then target format?4. For encoding options, why are some drop down boxes others sliders? ex MPC. I like the slider. Quickly see min and max.

@antman1. LOL I wrote it in Turkish.2. I could not find information about that, I will make some tests and put my results there.3. It is like this because every track must be decoded to wav first. For each track there are two steps (decode and encode) (three if you enable Sox Options). And TAC monitors number of jobs done to show progress, so total progress is number of tracks times two (three if you enable Sox Options).4. I do not have answer to that. Now I think about it, it does not make sense to me either. Maybe I'll change all quality settings to sliders.

2011-05-12: TTA1 development libraries has been updated. The new TTA ANSI-C library version 2.1 and TTA C++ library version 2.1 are now available, with updated console frontends which are included in binary package of each library

...Would it be possible to parse all metadata text fields from the source (FLAC) to (QAAC) or (ALAC)? eg Album Artist, Album Artist Sort, Artist Sort, Album Sort etc....

Sorry I missed this post. It seems with QAAC only "Album Artist" can be implemented (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). In command line help it says something about "iTunes Pre-defined tags" but i do not know what they are.

@o-l-a-v, I've changed controls' behaviours so that they get greyed too. Trimming would require a preview tool, maybe MPlayer can be used for it.

when you open your files with mediainfo do you see Album Artist, Album Artist Sort, Artist Sort, Album Sort? Perhaps you can send me a sample with these tags?

Thanks for the link btw.

Thanks ozok.

The tags that are written are: Artist, Album, Date, Composer, Track Number, Track Titile, Genre.The tags that are not written are: Album Artist, ***Sort Fields, Comment, Disc Number, Total Track, Total Disc, Style or any other tag like Accurate Rip, Conductor etc.

This is not critical because I can re-do the tags in mp3tag but it would be time saving if they were written.

I use audio converters a lot to downsize the bitrate of audiobooks (MP3 to MP3).Yours is the ONLY SOFTWARE anywhere I've found that allows one to include the directory tree and the album art.I note with full approval the feedback and rapid response on this forum and this is why I'm more than happy to contribute. Your app threatens to blow away all the competition!However there are still IMHO one or two possible improvements (this is on a Windows 7 64-bit system with an Intel i7 processor):

Album Art---------When a single file is converted (only one entry in the TAC list) the album art is copied faithfully to the target file.When a group of individual files are converted together (as a list in TAC, the album art is taken from the first one and copied to each individual file, whereby the album art of the 2nd, 3rd ... files are lost in the targets.The same applies when you select a directory to convert. This is OK if you want to apply the same album art to all files in a single album directory.However the correct behaviour in all cases would be to retain the album art of each individual file in all cases regardless of whether you select a group of files or a directory.Extraction of album art: maybe the extraction of the album arts from individual files should be made in every case in a set of individual files for each file converted (e.g. folder1.jpg, folder2.jpg etc and NOT just a single folder.jpg, as you do now). The user can then choose after conversion to delete the duplicates - or you could retain the existing behaviour as an option (i.e. between individual art extraction for each single file or just first file art extraction).

Occasional Deletion of Source Files-----------------------------------Twice I've found than source files are deleted from the source when I convert individual files as a group, which is very bad news.Sorry, but I haven't been able subsequently to reproduce this however hard I try.

Target Directory Name---------------------When I downsize MP3s to an intermediate target directory, maintaining their directory structure, I note than "_lame" is added to the names of the final leaves of the directory tree. It would be nice to make the addition of "_lame" an option, as it would then be possible to convert a full directory tree and then copy the (intermediate) target structure to the original one (copy-paste in Windows), without having to eliminate each "_lame" in the directory names beforehand.

Nice to have: use the Graphics Processor----------------------------------------TAC's ability to specify up to 8 processes allows optionally good exploitation of a multicore processor - well done!I've also seen some conversion programs that on top of this allow use of the graphics processor, at least for my NVIDIA graphics chip..Maybe you could incorporate some of the NVIDIA CUDA Tollkit to do this.

1. What you say about artwork seems to make sense. I'll add an option about that.2. I heard about that before but could not reproduce it or get any more info from users about it. Do report it if it happens again.3. Again, I'll add an option about that directory naming thing.4. Using GPU is not possible. TAC just does file level parallelization. Unless one of the encoders support it, there isn't much I can do about it. Also it may not be possible to do audio encoding with GPU at all.

--0.7.7-Added: NeroAACTag will be used to write tags to files encoded with FHGAAC-Added: FFMpeg will be used for AC3 encoding (thx to lvqcl)-Added: Option to copy external artwork (jpg, jpeg and png)-Added: Option to download lyrics for converted files from http://www.lyricstime.com/-Added: Option to enable/disable adding suffix to created folders (thx to javmaclean)-Added: Option to rename extracted artwork to match file's name-Removed: Aften

Ozok: When encoding from FLAC to Opus, there seem to be some tag-problems."Track Number" and "Total Tracks" are forgotten + "Track Number" gets a new tag in the opus file, <TRACKNO>. Also, the "Composer"-field in the FLAC was blank, in the Opus file it gets filled with "Unknown". I'd rather have the Composer-tag blank than filled with "Unknown" Same thing happens Flac->FlacAnd maybe you could use official compile of Opus from Mozillas ftp? https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/opus/win32/

@cyberdux and @o-l-a-v try this exe. Please note that this is not portable version.

-I tried to add ArtistSort, AlbumSort, ComposerSort, AlbumArtistSort, NameSort to QAAC and ALAC. Although no error occurs while encoding, MediaInfo shows "soal" instead of "ALBUMSORT".-Opus should show track info properly now.-QAAC and ALAC will now have comment tags copied.-I added more tag fields to musepack.

One more thing: I like how the program can be dragged to the sides, and auto fill half the screen. And drag to top to get fullscreen. Thats nice But when its maximized you can not drag it which with normal windows (Explorer for instance) will reduce the size again. (Restore Down). Could you add that?